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Chernobyl and the Mortality Crisis in Eastern Europe and the Former USSR / José A. Tapia.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: De Gruyter Contemporary Social Sciences ; 11Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2022]Copyright date: ©2022Description: 1 online resource (XVI, 132 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110761733
  • 9783110761894
  • 9783110761788
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 363.17/99094777 23/eng/20221220
LOC classification:
  • RA569 .T37 2022
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- About the author -- Preface -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Chernobyl — The nuclear disaster -- Chapter 3 Chernobyl and the timing of the mortality crisis -- Chapter 4 Birth rates and sex ratios after Chernobyl -- Chapter 5 Soviet and post-Soviet cover-up -- Chapter 6 Effects of the radioactive fallout — From early evaluations to the Chernobyl Forum -- Chapter 7 Health effects of ionizing radiation — How knowledge grew out of secrecy -- Chapter 8 Effects of low-dose radiation — The LNT model — Hormesis -- Chapter 9 Conflicting results of investigations on exposures to low-dose ionizing radiation -- Chapter 10 Thyroid cancer caused by the Chernobyl fallout -- Chapter 11 Post-Chernobyl non-thyroid malignancies and other health effects -- Chapter 12 Mortality effects of fallout from nuclear tests -- Chapter 13 Conclusion -- Appendix A Units for measurement of ionizing radiation -- Appendix B Gender issues -- Appendix C Data Tables -- References -- Index
Summary: Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the mortality crisis which affected Eastern Europe and the republics of the former USSR at the time of the transition to a market economy was arguably the major peacetime health crisis of recent decades. Chernobyl and the Mortality Crisis in Eastern Europe and the Old USSR discusses the importance of that crisis, surprisingly underplayed in the scientific literature, and presents evidence suggesting a potential role of the Chernobyl disaster among the causes contributing to it.
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Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- About the author -- Preface -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Chernobyl — The nuclear disaster -- Chapter 3 Chernobyl and the timing of the mortality crisis -- Chapter 4 Birth rates and sex ratios after Chernobyl -- Chapter 5 Soviet and post-Soviet cover-up -- Chapter 6 Effects of the radioactive fallout — From early evaluations to the Chernobyl Forum -- Chapter 7 Health effects of ionizing radiation — How knowledge grew out of secrecy -- Chapter 8 Effects of low-dose radiation — The LNT model — Hormesis -- Chapter 9 Conflicting results of investigations on exposures to low-dose ionizing radiation -- Chapter 10 Thyroid cancer caused by the Chernobyl fallout -- Chapter 11 Post-Chernobyl non-thyroid malignancies and other health effects -- Chapter 12 Mortality effects of fallout from nuclear tests -- Chapter 13 Conclusion -- Appendix A Units for measurement of ionizing radiation -- Appendix B Gender issues -- Appendix C Data Tables -- References -- Index

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Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the mortality crisis which affected Eastern Europe and the republics of the former USSR at the time of the transition to a market economy was arguably the major peacetime health crisis of recent decades. Chernobyl and the Mortality Crisis in Eastern Europe and the Old USSR discusses the importance of that crisis, surprisingly underplayed in the scientific literature, and presents evidence suggesting a potential role of the Chernobyl disaster among the causes contributing to it.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Mai 2023)